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The flip side of the new Coronavirus outbreak - reduced air pollution mortalities?

In February, air pollution over large parts of China was reduced by 20 to 30 percent. If air pollution levels remain this low for a longer-term period, 50,000 - 100,000 premature deaths could be avoided according to calculations by CICERO, Norway's leading institute for climate research.

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Climate policies must intensify to accelerate emission reductions in the post-COVID era

Global CO2 emissions declined sharply in 2020, but with a rebound expected in 2021 efforts must be intensified if the world is to reach the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global warming well below 2°C, a new study shows.

Including natural disasters into macro-fiscal models and analyses

March 18, 14:30 - 15:30 (CET)

Risk Auditing: how can we measure progress in disaster reduction?

February 18, 16:00 - 17:00

New project on clean energy communities attracts high interest in Norway

The large number of participants at the first meeting of the Norwegian COME RES country desk indicates that there is high interest in the development of renewable energy communities in Norway.

StressTest: Using scenarios to assess climate risk in the financial sector

Increasingly, financial decision-makers are asked to assess, disclose and respond to climate-related risks across a range of potential future scenarios. In the project StressTest, CICERO will produce scenario data and guidelines that will allow help financial actors to respond to regulatory initiatives on scenario use.

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Achievements and needs for the climate change scenario framework

Brian C. O'Neil, Timothy R. Carter, Kristie L. Ebi, Paula A. Harrison, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Kasper Kok, Elmar Kriegler, Benjamin l. Preston, Keywan Riahi, Jana Sillmann, Bas J. van Ruijven, Detlef Van Vuuren, David Carlisle, Cecilia Conde, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, Carole Green, Tomoko Hasegawa, Julia Leininger, Seth Monteich, Ramon Pichs-Madruga

Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on wheat yield in the Indo-Gangetic plain in India

Anne Sophie Daloz, Johanne Hope Rydsaa, Jana Sillmann, Øivind Hodnebrog, Bob van Oort, Lisa Emberson, Tianyi Zhang, Madhoolika Agrawal

How much snow falls in the world's mountains? A first look at mountain snowfall estimates in A-train observations and reanalyses

Anne Sophie Daloz, Marian Mateling, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Mark Kulie, Norman B. Wood, Mikael Durand, Melissa Wrzesien, Camilla Weum Stjern, Ashok P. Dimri

How much snow falls in the world’s mountains? A first look at mountain snowfall estimates in A-train observations and reanalyses

Anne Sophie Daloz

Public support for air travel restrictions to address COVID-19 or climate change

Steffen Kallbekken, Håkon Sælen

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